Pan-African Unitary Dynamics | Adama Coulibaly
Dear Comrades,
The Pan-African Unitary Dynamics (PUD) is honoured to take part in this international anti-imperialist meeting and the PDP congress. As a delegate, I have had the pleasure of witnessing Korea’s attachment to its intrinsic identity and ancestral cultural values while being open to science and the rest of the world. We revolutionary sovereigntist pan-Africanists want a new Africa, both modern and anchored in its ancestral values rehabilitated. Beyond this consideration, Africa, like Korea, has experienced external domination, liberation struggle, war, separatism and division.
We are gathered here in a troubled international context, marked by the multiplication of provocations, aggressions against the environment and the peoples, the intensification of wars and the serious risk of a new world conflagration. This is the manifestation of the crisis of the dominant exploitative and imperialist capitalist system.
War has been and still is the solution to the major crises of the imperialist capitalist system, and the people have always been used as cannon fodder.
The DUP, which I represent, was created nearly four years ago and brings together twenty-three African and Afro-descendant organisations of various kinds (political, associative, citizens’). Our struggle aims at the liberation of the continent from any domination whatsoever, and the reconstruction of a united, sovereign and prosperous Africa in the service of the peoples of Africa in solidarity with the peoples of the world.
Comrades,
I want to talk to you about Africa, the motherland of humanity and the first constitution in the world, the Kouroukan Fouga Charter of 1236, a continent once steeped in the values of humanity, peace and harmony. I want to evoke this Africa full of promise, this Africa that is both coveted and martyred.
For more than 400 years, Africans have always put up fierce resistance to all forms of barbaric aggression and ferocious exploitation (slave trade, colonial wars, military occupations, etc.). Unfortunately, this has not prevented the destruction of the great empires (Ghana, Mali, Songhai, etc.) as well as the denial and partial destruction of African civilisation, coupled with the shameless plundering of its cultural riches, which still cover Western museums.
The carving up of Africa at the Berlin Congress of 1884/85 and the colonial and neo-colonial wars of invasion have continued to decimate the multitude of resistance fighters and to subjugate the African populations by the gun. Yes, the abomination of slavery was succeeded by colonisation with the same violent methods of massacres with genocidal intentions, forced labour and intensified exploitation of wealth.
Independence, even if it was a sham, was obtained through a hard struggle at the cost of the blood of the people and of many of their independence and revolutionary representatives. Everywhere, imperialism has methodically destroyed the revolutionary forces that bring a future to the African peoples.
In 2023, France is still illegally keeping the Comorian island of Mayotte under colonial rule. It is currently carrying out a criminal exclusion operation called Wuambushu, which is designed to destroy housing, repress, evict and violently expel some Comorians from their forcibly occupied territory.
After independence in the 1960s, imperialism initiated murderous coups d’état, so-called ethnic and/or religious civil wars, often in the presence of the French army and the United Nations.
Military interventions in Africa are carried out under the cover of leonine cooperation agreements between France and its former colonies and through UN military missions.
Terrorism was then introduced to maintain the permanent war state. This phenomenon was amplified following the destruction of Libya by NATO. This led to the proliferation of weapons and the development of terrorist groups.
All this while France has several military bases in 11 countries in Africa with between 12,000 and 15,000 soldiers, the United States 16 military bases and drone airfields. Djibouti is home to a multitude of foreign military bases: USA, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, China, Turkey, Japan. Following government requests, Russia is present in the Central African Republic and Mali in particular.
Institutions such as UN missions, the World Bank and IMF, and the AFD have largely impoverished African states and their populations, with the complicity of local puppet leaders.
The majority of African countries are ruled by authoritarian or even dictatorial political regimes, neo-colonial vassals, accomplices and local representatives of big capital. The economy of these countries is extroverted, poorly industrialised, limited, as in the days of the transatlantic slave trade, to an economy of rents and extraction dominated by foreign capital. Africa has the greatest potential wealth (arable land, raw materials, youth) but remains the least industrialised continent with the most deprived population.
In the face of this unacceptable situation, the DUP is working to bring together organisations and activists who are determined and committed to the pan-Africanist anti-imperialist struggle in active support of the multi-faceted struggles that are growing in Africa.
Important struggles against capitalist domination and exploitation, for sovereignty and social, economic and cultural rights continue to develop across the continent. In 2020 in Burkina Faso and Niger, people rose up against huge convoys of the French army. In Mali, Barkhane was forced to relocate mainly to Niger and Benin. The same applies to the Sabre task force in Burkina Faso, which was ordered to leave the country. In the DRC, MONUSCO has been denounced and asked to pack up. Françafrique, the political, economic and military arm of NATO’s military occupation, is in trouble as a result of the blows of the youth, the people and neo-Pan-Africanism on the continent and in the diaspora.
The imperialist powers and their local relays resist, proceeding by economic sabotage, murderous repression (Chad, Senegal), intensification of terrorist attacks
There are currently six UN peacekeeping operations in the
continent: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mali,
South Sudan, Abiye in Sudan and Western Sahara. (Mali and Burkina), war between army factions in Sudan, a war in reality between powers on the back of the Sudanese people who flee the fighting into exile, … .
Our objective, together with the peoples of Africa, is to regain the full sovereignty and unity of Africa, to put an end to predation and capitalist exploitation in the interest of the African peoples. We demand the departure of all foreign and UN troops from Africa!
This objective of liberation and progress of the peoples requires the strengthening of concrete internationalist solidarity in the struggle against capitalist exploitation and imperialism. We are ready and willing to engage in this solidarity of struggle with comrades from other continents.
As this political and ideological struggle is multifaceted, we envisage the creation of an internationalist university and progressive media to counteract imperialist propaganda.
The DUP is working to strengthen its links with all anti-imperialist forces whose objective is to build a world order of solidarity where no country will dominate any other, where the right of peoples to self-determination will be a tangible reality, in peace and with the sole objective of meeting the legitimate needs of peoples.
We wish you every success in your work!
Long live the active solidarity between the peoples and their authentic representatives! Against war, for peace, the workers and peoples of the world will win! Nan lara, an sara!
Only the struggle liberates!
